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Shawn Smith

The piece is approximately 24” long, 11” wide, and 11” high

My conceptual and material practice explores digital identity, color, colliding systems of information, labor, technology, and science. As an object maker, I am interested in relating these concepts back to the symbiotic connection between the hand and the “thing.” This relationship is a basic principle in the development of the modern human--biologically, psychologically, culturally, and scientifically.

For my Rapid Artist project I was interested in creating a collision between a chaotic and natural form, like a swarm, and a complex, man made thing like a musical instrument.  For my project, I re-fabricated a French horn made up entirely of hundreds of flies, printed as one 3D object.  For me it is an opportunity to investigate how a computer controlled system can recreate a natural, highly complex, and unpredictable system of nature.

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